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broccoli

noun as in cabbage

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However, the term is also applied to members of Brassica rapa, such napa cabbage, and can be used to encompass a wider range of cruciferous vegetables — including broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts and collard greens.

A well salted and perfectly cooked vegetable or a crisped piece of chicken is easier to transform into something new than, say, an enormous pot of cream of broccoli soup or a triple recipe of chicken salad.

From Eater

Sainsbury said it’s exploring alternatives to trucks to keep its stores stocked with lettuce, cauliflowers, broccoli and citrus fruits from the Continent.

From Fortune

Together with two adjacent counties to the south, the area around Salinas produces the vast majority of lettuce grown in the US during the summer months, along with most of the cauliflower, celery, and broccoli, and a good share of the berries.

I use my hands to massage it into Brussels sprouts, roughly chopped carrots, and broccoli florets.

From Eater

These pathetic folks need to accept that “jazz has replaced classical music as the dreaded incarnation of eat-your-broccoli art.”

Once inside, he removes a cup of broccoli-cheddar soup from his bag and goes to heat it up.

How is life worth living without spinach, tender asparagus, or purple-sprouting broccoli?

I lived for my packages from home of eggplants and asparagus and tomatoes and broccoli and elephant garlic.

I was lucky enough to have a family that brought broccoli; birdman hunted the local seagulls.

The special merit of Broccoli is its adaptability for late summer planting and its rapid growth in the late fall.

Broccoli and savoys taste better when a little bacon is boiled with them.

Boil the greens (Scotch kale, broccoli tops, etc.) in the usual way.

The flat fields are devoted to the cultivation of broccoli, and early vegetables, fruits, and flowers for the London market.

Watering may save the crop, but the finest pieces of Broccoli are those that are secured without any watering whatever.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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